Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

[Kurt Granroth]

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 01:39 pm, Brian Cluff wrote:
> I just got e-mailed that Tivo has knocked $100 off the price of their units
> again.  So the 30 hour one is $249  (Damn that sucks I paid $400+ for the
> 14 hour one that I demoed at the plug meeting.)
> Anyway,  for anyone that was wanting one, but thought the price was a
> little too steep...  They are doing free shipping too

FWIW, Costco has had it for $249 for some time now.  I bought mine from 
Circuit City for $299 (or so, don't remember) and then got the ad from Costco 
and got CC to give me the difference.  The handy thing there, too, is that 
you don't have to wait for it to be shipped.. I just picked it up and was up 
and running some hours later.

> Also for anyone interested.  I am not running a 91 hour Tivo.  If you are
> interested in doing an upgrade, I would be more than happy to help you do
> that.

I assume you mean "I am NOW running..".  Is this with a 30 hour TiVo?  I was 
under the assumption that only the one hard drive (20 hour) units could be 
upgraded.

> Tivo is has also revved their software since I did the demo, and I can tell
> you that its waaaaay better than it was when i demoed it.  It's got a ton
> of coflict resolution, and very cool wish list stuff that will let you pick
> shows based of type of show, actor/ess and zillions of combinations of the
> stuff  (ie you can have the tivo setup to grab any movie that has george
> carlin in it and is also a comedy).

It *is* very sweet.  I have a hard time doing without it now... but it could 
be better.  I wish (way OT) that it could record more then one show at a time 
and could overlap recordings based on priority.  For instance, if there is an 
hour show that you kind of like and a half hour show that you really like, it 
would record the first half our of the former show and all of the latter.
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